level up crafting with leves only?

[VanillaChinchilla]

Indeed, you did nothing at all wrong. The system is de-facto obnoxious and even the development team agrees on that, such that they are changing it, however the entire recipe selection method can unfortunately only be changed come 2.0, wherein it will definitely be far more intuitive, it seems.

Ok great, now I know how it works. It would be nice to have a list of recipes in game but its actually more fun and experimental the way it is. I just put some hemp thread and cloth into the box and discovered a list of recipes. I made myself a scarf that makes my character look like a bandit now!

I thought this game was like other MMO and you had to have the recipe first, which is why I thought I couldnt make a straw hat, but it also makes more sense that my character can figure out how to make straw hat on his own if he has the ingredients. Im sure its not a huge secret how to make a straw hat lol
But I am in Gridannia, so the black straw hat will have to wait, I havnt decided if I should spend the 2500Gil on an airship trip to another city yet.

Now that ive crafted a few items, I agree with what other people have said that using leves to level up crafting is the best.
I only got about 200 xp for the couple things I crafted and you can only craft one thing at a time which is time consuming, so leves are a much faster and efficient way of leveling, plus you get bonus rewards also.
But I am still going to see what other neat stuff I can craft along the way